It was sitting beside the curb outside my apartment. A white iPhone 4S in surprisingly good condition. I scooped it up from the ground to get a closer look. It probably belonged to a high school girl, judging by the horrendously glittering purple case.
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Boys are fucking hopeless at lust these days, so us girls wrote you this guide.
In the meantime, attitudes towards men who pursue underage girls continue to be frustratingly lax on the whole. Last year, year-old James Franco tried and failed to hook up with a year-old Scottish girl via Instagram. After a month of denial, he fessed up, joked about it , and more or less emerged unscathed with his career intact.
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Photo by Jake Lewis via. Spend too much time on the internet and you'll end up thinking young men in Europe today fall into one of two camps: hyper-sensitive puppy dogs trying to fundraise their way to true love, or those guys who think flirting means getting shitfaced and screaming rape threats down a traffic cone at girls in the street. While this picture isn't percent accurate, it does seem that too many guys have adopted either the love formula or the LAD Bible as their seduction template, and frankly either of those approaches is as erotic to us as the idea of getting finger-banged in a jacuzzi by the Elephant Man. Of course, we know you're not all wankers. But the truth is, boys these days have really dropped their flirt game. Finding a woman to love you tender isn't about throwing a hessian sack over her head and tossing her on the back of a wagon. It's also not about slithering up with some awful PUA lines and trying to bully-fuck her. We're not asking for Jane Austen; we just want to be wooed and we want you to be cool about it. Dating in the post-lads mag age is a romantic, political and legal minefield, so here's a guide to help you through the painful business of chatting up girls. We know you're not "new" to the whole dating app game, and the evidence doesn't suggest you find it particularly "weird".
Spend too much time on the internet and you'll end up thinking young men today fall into one of two camps: hypersensitive puppy dogs trying to fund-raise their way to true love, or those guys who think flirting means getting shitfaced and screaming rape threats down a traffic cone at girls in the street. While this picture isn't percent accurate, it does seem that too many guys have adopted either the love formula or the Bro Bible as their seduction template, and frankly either of those approaches is as erotic to us as the idea of getting finger-banged in a Jacuzzi by the Elephant Man. Of course, we know you're not all dumbasses. But the truth is, boys these days have really dropped their flirt game.
